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Airwallex is a regulated AI-native financial operating system serving 675,000+ businesses globally, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok. The company operates 85+ licenses across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, with 2,300+ employees across 27 offices.
You will own Airwallex's global second-line Transaction Monitoring strategy, governance framework, and policy standards across products, payment rails, customer base, and jurisdictions. This is a leadership role within the Regulatory & Compliance team, which builds trust, discipline, and operational resilience for a generational financial platform.
Key responsibilities include:
- Establish and maintain global second-line Transaction Monitoring governance framework and policy standards
- Drive independent 2LOD challenge and oversight of 1LOD Transaction Monitoring teams, improving investigative rigor and alert disposition quality
- Oversee regional SAR/STR/SMR reporting teams in L3 review and suspicious activity report preparation
- Lead the global Financial Intelligence Unit in complex investigations, cross-regional reviews, and emerging risk typology development
- Collaborate with FCC Global Models lead on Transaction Monitoring rule lifecycle governance, including typology identification, scenario logic, and threshold tuning
- Spearhead evolution from threshold-based monitoring toward AI-driven anomaly detection and machine-learning behavioral clustering
- Partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to embed Transaction Monitoring logic into core transaction-processing systems
- Resolve complex financial crime escalations, including novel laundering schemes and sanctions-evasion typologies
- Improve model effectiveness through partnerships with Model Risk Management, Quantitative teams, and Audit
- Represent Airwallex in regulatory examinations (FCA, MAS, HKMA, AUSTRAC) and partner-bank due diligence
You will operate in a compliance-heavy environment where you move fast without cutting corners that matter. The role requires comfort with incomplete information, distributed global teams across APAC, EMEA, and Americas time zones, and the ability to simplify complexity while advocating strongly for positions.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years dedicated AML and financial crime experience with deep technical and operational expertise in Transaction Monitoring across global cross-border payments, corporate banking, FX, or fintech platforms
- 3+ years leading, managing, or mentoring compliance professionals in global or multi-regional settings
- Proven experience establishing 2LOD oversight frameworks, rule-governance processes, and effective challenge mechanisms for high-volume automated Transaction Monitoring platforms
- Demonstrated ability to work with large datasets, SQL, data analytics, and modern Transaction Monitoring models; ability to translate business logic into technical parameters for Data Science and Engineering teams
- Practical experience evaluating, testing, or deploying AI/ML tools, graph analytics, or automated dispositioning models in regulatory compliance environments
- Strong understanding of global AML rules, typology standards, and reporting expectations across FCA, FinCEN, MAS, HKMA, and AUSTRAC
- Proven track record managing regulatory examinations, internal/external audits, and banking-partner inquiries relating to Transaction Monitoring systems and controls
- Exceptional stakeholder-management and communication skills; ability to explain complex quantitative Transaction Monitoring models and risk decisions to senior executives and external authorities
- Based in the UK, ideally within reach of Birmingham, with agility to collaborate across APAC, EMEA, and Americas time zones
- CAMS, CFCS, CFE, or equivalent industry certification
- Bachelor's degree
PREFERRED:
- Quantitative, technical, data, or legal degree
- Experience in high-volume cross-border payments, corporate banking, FX, or fintech platforms
- Experience partnering with Model Risk Management, Quantitative teams, Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Audit
